The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Oil prices surged and stock markets sank today, which is the opposite of what Trump was hoping to achieve after his national address last night.

Taxpayer dollars 💸 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

I’ve been at LaGuardia airport since 6am, waited in TSA precheck line for 1 hour, only for my 9am flight to keep getting delayed every hour. Now, my 9am flight is at 2pm. Lounge employees are like “you’re back!” The unfortunate thing is LGA was my fav airport. This experience is ruining that😭

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

This is a good visual piece of China’s deep sea mining influence, but it appears quite one-sided. In international waters, China may be the heavyweight, but in territorial waters, the US is gaining ground by bribing Pacific Island nations & bypassing international law. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Key deep-sea mining news this week: 1. ISA meeting ended with no deep-sea mining code 2. Trump nearly doubles the size it wants to mine around Guam and the Northern Marianas 3. US and Japan makes a joint rare earths deal theconfluence.news/p/the-un-say...

$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.

A reminder that there are local people who actually rely on the Strait of Hormuz for food and livelihood. theconfluence.news/p/how-confli...

I wrote this about Cesar Chavez a while back.

Prime Minister Takaichi is “constrained not just by Japan’s pacifist constitution, but overwhelming public opposition: Only 9 percent of Japanese endorse the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, according to a recent poll by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...

90 days left of being a fiancée 💍 📸: Samantha Salamon 📍my beautiful home island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 🇲🇵

"As the world watches the oil markets, a silent ecological collapse threatens livelihoods and the biodiversity of one of the world's most vital maritime corridors." Uprooter @rachelreports.bsky.social in her newsletter, The Confluence theconfluence.news/p/how-confli...

Caught in the crossfire? Coastal communities who rely on fishing the Strait of Hormuz as their primary source of income. They are already living with economic uncertainty, blistering climate change-fueled heat, and limited job opportunities outside the ocean. theconfluence.news/p/how-confli...

By subscribing to The Confluence, you get original reporting by yours truly. With this latest piece, I talked to researchers from Gaza and Iran about how the war is devastating local fisheries, coastal communities, and vital marine ecosystems. Subscribe now 📩 theconfluence.news

For coastal communities along the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, the greater concern spans far beyond oil and gas prices. It’s their safety, livelihoods, food security, and the decades-long ecological fallout that follows. My latest newsletter issue: theconfluence.news/p/how-confli...

The International Seabed Authority council meeting to discuss international deep sea mining regulations begins today in Jamaica. I’ll be monitoring any updates.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Israel has razed Gaza, target bombed hospitals and schools in Iran, and is now leveling Southern Lebanon all in "self defence".

It's #WorldWildlifeDay! Not just human lives are affected by climate change - animals are, too, including migratory birds. MONA alum @rachelreports.bsky.social covers the importance of forest conservation in Central America for @audubon.org. 🐦➡️ ow.ly/zQtF50YozuZ

About a year ago, CNN laid me off, the only climate reporter in the network born & raised in the Pacific Islands, along with 100s of others. I haven’t had the chance to go back to my home island since I started working there. Nearly a year later, here I am back home in the Northern Marianas 🇲🇵 1/

Go to the Uproot Resource Library to see three new reporting guides by 2025 MONA Fellows and Uprooters @rachelreports.bsky.social, @mjoel17.bsky.social, and Eva Tesfaye uprootproject.org/initiatives/...

Oooh, we're excited for The Confluence!

Some news in the clean energy sector: A surge in wind power generation, fueled by storms, broke records and cut gas costs in the UK last month. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

"Japan is spending five weeks mining the seafloor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy demand, and environmental risk." Uprooter @rachelreports.bsky.social for @grist.org grist.org/internationa...

Last December, I went to Japan to learn more about the country’s deep-sea mining research. In January, a crew embarked on a five-week experiment off a remote Pacific island. I wrote a deep dive about Japan’s move to ultimately cut reliance on China for critical minerals. grist.org/internationa...

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First, it was American Samoa; then my home, the Northern Mariana Islands; now the Trump administration is looking at Alaskan waters for deep sea mining. … another home to Indigenous peoples, fisheries and some of the world’s most fragile ecosystems. www.eenews.net/articles/fed...

Today, I learned Travis Kelce hosts a game show!

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

WHO removing Us Flag

Journalists—especially those with resources from major networks who are able to parachute and report on the ground in Minnesota—need to be asking tougher questions. We need to not just report what we’re seeing, we need to hold people in power accountable. This is not right.

This is the water in parts of Manhattan right now. This has been happening almost all day. My landlord said there’s been a “huge water main break in Midtown.” (??)

Lots of chatter by two deep-sea mining CEOs on this panel about the urgency to mine seabed for stock piling & natural security purposes. Then @drandrewthaler.bsky.social comes in with.... "... and the cheapest place to stockpile a polymetallic nodule is to leave it on the seafloor.” 💥

“The role of fossil gas increased by 8% – largely because of a weather-related drop in hydropower output – but remained well below its most recent 2019 peak, the report found.“ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Trump administration issued a new rule to fast-track deep sea mining in international waters, consolidating a two-step permitting process—one for exploration and another for commercial recovery—into a single review. This reduces environmental oversight. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Can someone tell me why I can’t seem to open this reel a friend shared on Insta of a comedy skit by comedian Marcello Hernandez comparing Latino crimes to white crimes? Whenever I do, this notification pops up. I’m in New York…🤔

“The MONA fellowship provided me the rare opportunity to step out of the daily news cycle and into the field, engaging with and learning from amazing ocean scientists and researchers.“ Uprooter @rachelreports.bsky.social Learn more and apply: uprootproject.org/mona-fellows...

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

CNN is covering the Kalshi prediction markets as though they are news

Anyone here know of Japanese climate/enviro orgs I can reach out to who’s closely monitoring the country’s push to mine critical minerals?

The Trump administration says it will dismantle a key climate-science center, while salvaging its forecasting capabilities. “Today, predicting the weather without considering the climate would be meteorological malpractice," Michelle Nijhuis argues.

EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Getting texts that Taylor Swift is having her wedding on the same day as mine …. it is so on.

Doing another research on the 2010 BP oil spill, and I still can’t believe this opinion was given a platform — not to mention, with this headline.

Deeply saddened at reports more than 1,000 people have been killed by severe floods & landslides in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. As rains continue, millions remain affected. This tragedy is a stark reminder of #ClimateChange impacts & urgent need to act. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

We waited all night at COP30 for this weak sauce? Seriously? insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

Give the W to fossil fuel producers at a climate conference, why don’t ya?🙃 This only sets us up for more extreme weather events. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

I know people are mocking this question but short haul flights like the ones between DC and NY are among the most carbon intensive and need to be eliminated. And the actual time difference btwn the two is negligible when you factor in security. I was surprised he flew.